Bodoni Painting :: Day 5
It’s coming. Very frustrating that day. I felt like I was painting too much, overworking it. When that happens, for some reason, I keep painting when I should just quit for the day. After letting it sit for a day or two, I’m liking it more. I guess it’s a good lesson in being patient and sleeping on it before deconstructing and destroying it. I think part of the problem is that this is the only painting I’m working on. I used to always have about 5+ paintings going on at various stages. It really helped having a few pieces started, a few in flux, and a few nearly “finished”. Seeing the overall process of each can bring about solutions to certain problems. Every piece informs another.
Man, I miss this. I think I’m going to just start dedicating time to painting. It might be good to do a bunch on paper to get a bunch going quickly. Building/stretching canvases take a bit of time.
I guess the ultimate goal is to have one foot in design and one foot in painting/drawing.
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This is looking great, Casey. You should feel proud! I know how hard it is to get back into painting/drawing/photography….we get so caught up in life and then it’s suddenly so scary to face a blank canvas, when that’s all we used to do in college (and we were masters, weren’t we…) I love that I’m able to view your process literally through your postings and on the actual canvas itself. It allows your painting to have a real voice. The colors in this most recent stage are popping so nicely, especially the dark red against the bright blue. “Arrive at it…”
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thanks so much elise. one thing…we still are masters.